Week of 9/18/11

What I learned?

1. Write Epic!!! don't write mediocre stuff - there's a TON of that on the Internet
2. "It’s also important for your topic to solve a problem or fulfill a need your audience has. "
1. my blog http://weeklygroceryshopping.com/ will solve a problem IF I write/show them how to do it PHASE by PHASE showing details in a professional way
3. Answered these questions:

• Why should someone read my blog vs. the 100s of other blogs out there on this topic (or related topics? How would my blog be different?
• Am I capable of writing outstanding content on this topic? Could my content be better than 90% of blogs that exist on related topics?
• Am I excited enough about this topic to write about it multiple times every week for a year, even if I don’t draw a large audience?

Most importantly I learned that the content you write needs to be outstanding AND you need to be different than all of the other bloggers.

Main Goal

Start researching themes for WP


Items Accomplished 

• DONE! Read ThinkTraffic's posts on naming your domain - decide if I want to keep my domain name
• http://weeklygroceryshopping.com/
• DONE!  if I don't keep it, then start all over (N/A - I'm keeping my domain name)
• do the following
1. DONE! find 3 frugal carnivals to participate in
• grocery details wednesdays and/or frugal recipe on thursday:   http://www.frugalfollies.com/ 
• spendwise.org
• grocerycartchallenge
• moneysavingmom
• lifeasmom
2. DONE!   find out if google docs can be displayed in a post or does it always have to be a link: click share at the right hand side, publish as a web page, click on HTML, grab code and insert it into the post.
3. DONE! find a free publishing software that I can use OR figure out MS publisher
1. http://bloggingwithamy.com/how-to-make-a-blog-button/
2. http://bloggingwithamy.com/how-to-watermark-a-photo-and-edit-images-in-picnik/
4. Create professional documents - not sure how to measure this...what I'm doing looks unprofessional. Make documents clean and easy to understand.
1. http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/picnik/thread?tid=06d47931e6134512&hl=en
2. can I just add arrows in excel?

On future to do list:

• already have domain up on wordpress - find a simple, clean theme that works for me
• design header
• read SPI's post about good plug ins to have
• SEO plug All in One
• from thinktraffic Creating a Launch Plan "For now, start making a list of everything you’d like to have in place by the time you launch your new blog." Launch Plan thoughts:
• Safeway/Starbucks letter to see if they'll donate for a giveaway
• List 10 websites that I could submit a guest post to (include three big sites)
• 10-20 Keyword rich words
• Share a "my story"  at SmartPassiveIncome by end of October

What I plan to do week of September 25, 2011


Penalty
Every goal unmet donate $1.00 to food pantry donation $

Items Researched

Creating a form in google docs